- Agreed. The very end of the article also names off all the usual cookie cutter nonsense as well.
These people just can't help themselves to inject activism in everything they do, and this is why so many people are turned off by otherwise great projects.
Tech as a whole needs to take a step back and stop preaching to people about things they probably don't agree with.
- My workplace's dumbass outsourced IT group forced the upgrade the day Tahoe came out, without giving us time to assess the risks for software compatibility or stability first.
Companies need to make it optional until security updates are no longer available for the previous major version.
- The added dimension really made things intuitive so you weren't left guessing which vertical had to do with what. One space would give you enough context to know what might be next navigating up/down. It's really a shame how disruptive the change to Mission Control was by removing them.
I tend to organize my spaces by projects and then a dumping ground for "everything else" like general browsing and music.
For projects, unique windows are typically: IDE, Browser(s)
For apps I commonly use across spaces, I assign them to "All Desktops" so they follow me, like iTerm2 and Heynote for keeping notes / task lists even if they cover multiple projects.
- Thanks for explaining! I was mainly curious what viable alternatives there would be for the average user, and I think your suggestions are sound. Even technical folks wants things to feel as frictionless as possible.
The nice thing about recovery codes is being able to store them securely in a password manager alongside any other entries for the service.
The downside is they're easy to leak (or lose), so the added factors in requiring access to email (also with its own 2FA) are lost in a system like this, if whatever you're managing is mission critical. I wouldn't want to make that kind of bet, personally.
- I'm completely with you on this. Everything from scrolling to how windows behave makes a huge difference in the feeling of quality and responsiveness.
Once you're spoiled by a macOS machine's smoothness, it's hard to use anything else, where cursors feel like they're literally lagging behind your trackpad movements and land somewhere imprecise, and scrolling feels like opening a rusty car door as it catches on itself and you feel the friction.
macOS on an Apple Touchpad is like using a well-oiled machine by comparison. These things really matter!
- It isn't a free service -- only during the alpha you get access to an "Individual" account which would normally run $20/mo once the test period is over.
- I thought I was crazy for reading articles backwards, but it really does help to build a better picture of what's being shared or reported.
I find that a lot of journalists like to pack their writing with fluff before they even reach the subject of the headline, a lot like recipe blogs sharing their life stories before finally reaching the instructions, as if the recipe is only secondary or tertiary to the background given.
This is why I appreciate articles that include bullet points or a TL;DR right at the beginning to summarize. For anything really long that I'm just not interested in reading fully and only want the main points, I use an LLM with the URL to summarize briefly.
While there's so much value in slowing down as the OP wrote, I feel as if journalists want you to lend the same pace to them for all the time of ours they waste. It's like they forget how much information is available to us and how unimportant it all is.
- Borders can be applied to table cells independent of the content inside cells.
Gap decorations allow you to add borders between flex/grid items, but without the woes of dealing with table quirks and behavior.
Common use cases would include mimicking design patterns found in print layouts, particularly newspapers and menus, to help divide groups of items or info.
- I am never going to stop eating beef or poultry, no matter what any scientist or politician thinks about sustainability.
We have been using these as healthy, nutritious food sources for eons. I'm fine with people creating alternatives and making them available, but far too many people want to see the former disappear because they're misled by bad science and hysteria.
- This doesn't surprise me much; social networks have worked in tandem with governments, allowing them to call the shots to remove any content that opposed their political agendas, narratives, and opinions, to the extent that facts were flat-out censored to paint certain political opponents in a bad light, or worse, create potential legal issues.
It created a world where: when disapproval inside an echo-chamber fails to a critical mass of people telling the truth, just pretend the content doesn't exist and then gaslight people using official media outlets, including Congress and the White House.
So it gave people the impression there's no difference between the two. Not only were disapproval and state force in agreement, they colluded.
- If you ask a mainstream LLM to repeat a slur back to you, it will refuse to. This was determined by the AI company, not the content it was trained on. This should be incredibly obvious — and this extends to many other issues.
In fact, OpenAI has made deliberate changes to ChatGPT more recently that helps prevent people from finding themselves in negative spirals over mental health concerns, which many would agree is a good thing. [1]
Companies typically have community guidelines that often align politically in many ways, so it stands to reason AI companies are spending a fair bit of time tailoring AI responses according to their biases as well.
1. https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-...
- Couldn't this be compiled to a single-file executable using Bun or Deno, to avoid the need for a runtime install?
I couldn't be more thrilled to see them taking this direction.